Elizabeth Benjamin, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Atlanta, GANPI 1801911300
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $53,250 of the $55,396 with a category attached, or 96.1%. KCI USA, Inc. accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $53,673 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $60 in 2024. Among surgical critical care clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 24 payments — averaging $2308.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$54K
- CSL Behring$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$22
Across 35 payments — averaging $13,619 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- CSL Behring$477K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$53,25096%
- Travel & lodging$1,3672%
- Food & beverage$7191%
- Education$600%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 18 | $53,923 |
| CSL Behring | 5 | $1,451 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- ABTHERA$53,280
- VAC VERAFLO$12,496
- PREVENA$12,046
- FISTULA SOLUTION$12,046
How this compares
$55,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 52 surgical critical care providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other surgical critical care in Atlanta
- Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$410K
- Peter BarrettAtlanta$7K
- Omar DannerAtlanta$6K
- Frank JonesAtlanta$5K
- Vanessa ArientylAtlanta$3K
- Marlieke NussenbaumAtlanta$1K
- Manuela OchoaAtlanta$1K
- Deepika KogantiAtlanta$961
- Kristen Glasgow-PetelaAtlanta$863
- Erica RothAtlanta$539
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.